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- 1. Multiple Choice
What pesticide was used in the mid 20th century, but was residual and had many negative impacts on the food chain?
Azanine
BPA
Glycophosphate
DDT
- 2. Multiple Choice
What do we call a pesticide that kills insects?
insecticide
herbicide
fungicide
rodenticide
- 3. Multiple Choice
What do we call a pesticide that kills plants?
Insecticide
Herbicide
Fungicide
Rodenticide
- 4. Multiple Choice
The use of pesticides helps increase crop yield.
True
False
- 5. Multiple Choice
When a gas (water vapor) changes to a liquid
condensation
evaporation
transpiration
precipitation
- 6. Multiple Choice
What phase of the water cycle is #4?
Evaporation
condensation
precipitation
runoff
- 7. Multiple Choice
What phase is # 2
ground water
evapotranspiration
transpiration
condensation
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is an aquifer?
a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
a well in which water is under pressure especially : one in which the water flows to the surface naturally.
confining layer
solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium.
- 9. Fill in the Blank
____________ is water that is stored under the surface of the ground.
- 10. Fill in the Blank
One of our most precious natural resources is ______.
- 11. Fill in the Blank
Streams, lakes, and oceans are considered _________.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Pollution traced to a single point
water shed
permeable
point source pollution
non-point source pollution
- 13. Multiple Choice
Pesticides runoff: A point source or Nonpoint source pollution?
Point source
Nonpoint source
- 14. Multiple Choice
A industrial powerplant dumps its heated wastewater straight from a pipe into a stream. This is an example of -
eutrophic pollution
over-treated drinking water.
riparian pollution
flooding in the local aquifer.
point source pollution.
- 15. Multiple Choice
Septic tank leaking and contaminating groundwater.
Point Source Pollution
Non-point source pollution
- 16. Multiple Choice
Pollution that comes from MANY different places and is hard to identify its source.
Point
Non-Point
- 17. Multiple Choice
A ship carrying gasoline runs into shore and spills large amount of gasoline.
Point
Non-Point
- 18. Multiple Choice
Raw sewage: A Point source or Nonpoint source?
Point source
Nonpoint source
- 19. Multiple Choice
What is the largest environmental program stemming from agriculture?
recycling
soil erosion
animal cruelty
wetland creation
- 20. Multiple Choice
How much damage does soil erosion cause annually?
$6 million
$60 million
$60 billion
$6 billion
- 21. Multiple Choice
The SRS was renamed the ______.
NRCS
NRC
EPA
APCS
- 22. Multiple Choice
Select all the methods that can prevent soil erosion.
Replacing soil annually.
No till farming.
Preventing soil from reaching the field.
Keeping vegetation on the ground.
- 23. Multiple ChoiceAn algae bloom in a water system is most likely caused byhigh oxygen levels in the waterlarge amounts of nitrates in runoff
- 24. Multiple Choice
Select the impacts of too much nitrate in surface water runoff.
High plant growth clogs waterways
Enhances the ecosystem.
Promotes soil erosion
Zones of eutrophication
- 25. Multiple Choice
The three "R´s" are:
Review, reuse and recycle
Reduce, reuse, and recycle
- 26. Multiple Choice
Which of the following papers is GOOD to put in the recycling bin?
Newspaper
Notebook paper
Colored paper
All of the above
- 27. Multiple Choice
What is it?
trash
recyclable
- 28. Multiple Choice
Is it recyclable?
Yes
No
- 29. Multiple Choice
Is it recyclable?
Yes
No
- 30. Multiple Choice
Is it recyclable?
Yes
No
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